During the 2016 election between Trump and Clinton, 1/3 of pro-Trump tweets and 1/5 of pro-Clinton tweets were produced by bots. These not tweets helped to increase the sense of polarization in both parties.
President Trump built up a reputation for deceiving the American people throughout his time in office. However, you might be interested to know that The Washington Post fact checker found that Trump made over 30,000 false claims over his 4 year term.
A disagreement in opinion between her and her brother regarding McCarthy’s handling of the Red Scare, became national news when both stories were published on the front page of the opposing papers.
Nackey Scripps Loeb, a notable conservative journalist of the 20th century, used her husband’s newspaper business to publish opposing opinion to her biological family’s newspaper.
First Lady, Laura Bush, was commuted to improving the literacy of the American people. Bush believed that if more people could read and write then our country as a whole would be better. This project complimented her husband’s general goal of improving American lives in general.
Before the historical event of the first televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon (60 plus years ago), Presidential Candidates would give speeches from their own front porches.
LBJ wanted to follow in the footsteps of JFK and made himself very accessible to the press. In his first 6 months, he hosted 26 press conferences. The press was often annoyed by the sporadic nature of his events as it gave them little to no time to prepare.
President JFK was assassinated and his Vice President, Lyndon B. Johnson, was forced into the President role. Johnson went without Vice Presidential assistance until he had a chance to present a running mate for the next election.
Nixon felt that the press played a big part in both of these losses telling the press “Look, you’ve had Dick Nixon to kick around. It’s been fun, but this is it, this is my last news conference”.
President Richard Nixon was not known for having a good relationship with the press. This bad relationship started far before his presidency. It started with his loss of the 1960 election to JFK and then his loss of the California governor election of 1962.
Abraham Zapruder is famous for one thing and one thing only, being the videographer of the assassination of President J.F.K.. Right after capturing the moment, Zapruder climbed down from his elevated surface and screamed “They killed him! They killed him!”
18th President Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding on his horse. On the first encounter Grant was let off with a warning, but when he continued speeding for a second time he was given no mercy and was taken to the police station.
News reporters during the civil rights era found neutral reporting to be a challenge. This challenge came from the strategy of a non violent movement. This created a narrative that one party was causing violence which caused an perceived imbalance in media coverage.
It is no secret that presidential candidates put crazy amounts of money into their ad campaigns. However, you might be surprised to know that it alone takes one million dollars to run one ad for one week in a densely populated city such as Miami.